The Systems Thinking Framework: An Integrated Knowledge Approach to Complexity, Causation, and Human Rights - Couverture rigide

Souaiaia, Ahmed E

Couverture rigide

ISBN 13 : 9798888230145

Editeur : Institute for Integrated Systems Thinking, 2026

Synopsis

The Systems Thinking Framework presents a rigorous analytical methodology for understanding how complex phenomena, from climate disruption to human rights violations, emerge not from isolated causes but from interacting systems operating across time. This work formalizes systems thinking as a disciplined approach grounded in universal principles of work, energy, and temporal dynamics. Distinctively, the framework integrates normativity, power, and historical causation into systemic analysis, domains often excluded from conventional systems theory. Drawing on cross-civilizational intellectual traditions, including classical Greek philosophy and Islamic scholarship (notably Ibn S¿n¿ and Ibn Khald¿n), the author demonstrates that holistic, relational reasoning has long provided durable insight into complex realities. The book introduces a step-by-step systems mapping protocol that enables scholars and practitioners to identify determinant and contributory systems, trace feedback dynamics, and locate leverage points for intervention. Applied innovatively to rights analysis, the framework reframes violations not as moral failures but as systemic outcomes produced by configurations optimized for efficiency, scale, or extraction. By making visible how interconnected economic, political, legal, and environmental systems generate persistent harm, this work offers an indispensable tool for scholars, teachers, researchers, and advocates confronting the entangled crises of our time, where fragmented explanations and single-variable solutions have repeatedly proven inadequate.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Institute for Integrated Systems Thinking
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798888230145
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 104
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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